# William Asscher

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Professor Sir William Asscher Born Adolf William Asscher 1930 (1930) Netherlands Died 20 July 2014(2014-07-20) (aged 83–84) Occupation Consultant nephrologist Employer University of Cardiff Children Jane Asscher

[Sir](/source/Sir) **Adolf William Asscher** (1930 – 20 July 2014) was a Dutch-born British consultant [nephrologist](/source/Nephrology).

## Personal life

Asscher was born in the Netherlands. His family was of Jewish heritage; they were thus deported to [Westerbork transit camp](/source/Westerbork_transit_camp), from where his mother secured their release in 1943 by fabricating claims to be of English descent, helped in part by her son's blond hair.[1] The family left the Netherlands in 1947, when his father obtained a position with [Shell](/source/Shell-Mex_and_BP) in London.[1]

He died from bowel cancer on 20 July 2014. An obituary was published in the [British Medical Journal](/source/British_Medical_Journal).[1]

## Career

After [national service](/source/National_service) in the [Royal Engineers](/source/Royal_Engineers), he studied medicine at the [University of London](/source/University_of_London).[1] He rose to be Professor of Medicine at the [University of Cardiff](/source/University_of_Cardiff) from 1976 to 1987 and Director of the Institute of Nephrology there from 1970 to 1987.[2]

He was appointed Dean of [St George's Hospital Medical School](/source/St_George's_Hospital_Medical_School) in 1988, subsequently becoming its Principal until his retirement in 1996.[2]

He chaired the United Kingdom [Department of Health](/source/Department_of_Health)'s Committee on the Review of Medicines from 1985 to 1987 and its successor, the [Committee on Safety of Medicines](/source/Committee_on_Safety_of_Medicines) 1987 to 1993.[2] He was knighted for this work.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-BMJ_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-BMJ_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-BMJ_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-BMJ_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-BMJ_1-4) Gulland, Anne (15 November 2014). ["William Asscher"](http://www.bmj.com/bmj/section-pdf/780002?path=/bmj/349/7983/Obituaries.full.pdf) (PDF). p. 22.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-HoMBRG_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-HoMBRG_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-HoMBRG_2-2) Daphne Christie; [Tilli Tansey](/source/Tilli_Tansey); Lois Reynolds, eds. (1998), [*Making the Human Body Transparent: The Impact of NMR and MRI; Research in General Practice; Drugs in Psychiatric Practice; The MRC Common Cold Unit*](http://www.histmodbiomed.org/witsem/vol2), Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, [History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group](/source/History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group), [Wikidata](/source/WDQ_(identifier)) [Q29581621](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29581621)

## External links

- [William Asscher](https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.histmodbiomed.org/taxonomy/term/william-asscher.html) on the [History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group](/source/History_of_Modern_Biomedicine_Research_Group) website

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